In this master thesis, I examine whether the complexity of Norwegian declarative sentences, as well as auxiliary verbs, is of importance for the verbal placement for language users with Norwegian as a foreign language. The results presented in this thesis come from a survey in which informants with different language background answered a written questionnaire consisting of grammaticality judgements. In addition, an attempt is made to investigate whether a difference can be observed in the informants' perception of, and production of, verbal placement. The results from the survey show that the informants distinguish between V2 and V3 to a much greater extent for sentences with finite auxiliary verbs than sentences with finite main verbs. In addition, the results show that the informants more clearly distinguish the verb placement in sentences with a pronominal subject in front, than sentences with a nominal subject in front.

Keywords: Norwegian as a foreign language, Norwegian as a second language, third language, V2-rule, verb placement, informants, grammaticality judgements